Water and drought information-agriculture

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General irrigation and other:

• Drought Tips Series for Growers - a research-based, peer-reviewed series on the latest drought information for specific crops as well as irrigation and other approaches
• UC Drought Management - irrigation scheduling and deficit irrigation strategies for almonds, pistachios, stone fruit, walnuts, alfalfa, olives, winegrapes, corn, and processing tomatoes
• UC Irrigation Management
  
• Proven solutions to drought stress: Water management strategies for perennial crops with limited and impaired water supplies (workshop co-sponsored with USDA-ARS and Israel Ministry of Agriculture) - presentations from January 2016 workshop available here
• Irrigating Field Crops in a Water-Short Year - presentations from March 2014 workshop 
• 2014 California Plant and Soil Conference - video available, including talk on evapotranspiration-based scheduling during a drought
• UC Davis Biometeorology Group
  
  

Crop specific:

• Alfalfa
  
  • Drought strategies for alfalfa (part of our drought tips series)
  • Alfalfa’s resilience to drought
    
  • Alfalfa and drought
  • Alfalfa Subsurface Drip Irrigation Workshop - video and papers 
    
  • 2014 California Alfalfa & Grains Symposium - video presentations
    
    
• Almonds
  • Drought management for California almonds (part of our drought tips series)
  • The Almond Doctor
  • Rational Early Season Drought Planning for Almond Growers
  • Six ways to get your almond orchard ready for bloom
  • Video from 2014 Almond Day workshop, including talk on irrigating almonds in a drought year
    
    
• Corn: Managing irrigated corn during drought (part of our drought tips series)
  
  
• Pasture: Managing irrigated pasture during drought (part of our drought tips series)

• Pistachios
  
  
• Prunes: Drought strategies for California prune production (part of our drought tips series)
  
  
• Vineyards
  • Best Practices for Vineyard Water Management - video from February 2014 workshop
  • Vineyard Management in a Dry Year
    
    
• Walnuts
  • Drought strategies for walnuts (part of our drought tips series)

• 2014 Pomology Conference drought talks - video available